Overview
The focus of the Center for Planning and Policy Studies is to serve as a statewide resource for disability planning at state and community levels and to develop expertise in disability policy issues. The desired outcome of the Center's work is to increase the effectiveness of key constituents in collaborative planning and advocacy activities that lead to more inclusive communities.
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The mission of the Center for Planning and Policy Studies is to promote systems change that helps communities and organizations include, support, and empower people with disabilities.
The Center accomplishes this by facilitating collaborative planning and by advocating policies that result in full participation of people with disabilities in community life.
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Activities in the Center for Planning and Policy Studies target all types of "communities" committed to creating a better present and future for people with disabilities.
These "communities" may be governmental entities such as cities or towns, individual organizations such as schools or community agencies, higher education communities such as departments or task forces, and state government itself.
Of special interest to the Center are interagency, interdisciplinary, or multi-constituency groups that have come together or need to come together as a "community" to collaboratively resolve a problem or create a new future.
Below are listed some of the areas where we are currently engaged in planning and policy activities:
Consumer-based State Disability Planning
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The Center for Planning and Policy Studies supports publication of materials that assist individuals with disabilities to access community services and supports more easily, understand policymaking processes, and move towards becoming self-advocates. Examples of center publications include:
Points of Entry: A Guide to Accessing Indiana's Services and Supports (revised edition coming soon!)
Staff of the Center for Planning and Policy Studies are recruited from a variety of disciplines, and the Center serves as a training program for doctoral students from disability-related programs as well as from a variety of other departments. Reference faculty also come from a variety of disciplines.
Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
at Indiana University, Bloomington
The University Affiliated Program of Indiana
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Last Updated: 04/18/2006Copyright©2000
Center for Planning and Policy Studies
2853 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47408-2696
Phone: (812) 855-6508